Letters to the editor: June 11

Don't lie about that spike in gas prices

In Saturday's paper, there was an article on gas prices. Erin Reese, an Indiana attorney general's spokeswoman, stated the current situation does not involve price gouging. I wished they wouldn't lie to all of us people. I have to disagree with her 100 percent.

The production delays at seven of the Midwest refineries is just an excuse for them to raise the gas prices. The companies make millions and millions of dollars each year, as I have seen stated in your paper different times. I therefore feel it is nothing more that gouging and greed. If our prices are not gouging, then why is the state next to us a whole $1 less, according to a letter in Sunday's paper. If it isn't gouging, then the prices should be close to each other nationwide.

I have a suggestion for these gas companies. Maybe you gas companies should give us seniors free taxi service to go to the doctor, grocery stores or where ever else we need to go. Maybe they will find out how much of a burden they have put on us because of their greed. Maybe they would also start thinking about us seniors instead of their own pockets.

I thought that the government had set a limit years ago as to how much gas companies could raise their prices per day. Apparently that doesn't apply any longer. Maybe we should put that law back in effect.

Eugene Welk

Delphi

It was only time before Patriot Act was abused

As regards recent events polarizing the news media in the last several weeks, perhaps we should be more careful in the use of our cellphones and our tablets and use email for only limited purposes.

I have been wary of National Security Agency for sometime. Note the recent opening of NSA's new server farm in Utah. One should, also, note that the acceptance of NSA capability is bipartisan. It was only a matter of time, in my opinion, that the Patriot Act would be abused.

Further, I am convinced that the plethora of recent scandals is purposeful deception. The big "kahuna" is Benghazi. Benghazi is the only scandal that threatens the administration. At present, it appears that all potential critical leaks have been buttoned down. Given a compliant news media, all the other scandals will dissipate.

Jane Keplinger

Lafayette

Slim offerings for medical attention here

This is what happens when you get out of a nursing home and your local doctor has packed his bags and left town. Your managed "home care" can't continue because they don't have a doctor to manage you, and you can't even get a blood test called an INR to manage the Coumadin prescription you are on. All the doctors that we are referred to have a one-month waiting period or maybe two months. And they won't manage your Coumadin, either.

Does everybody get the picture? This is Obamacare, and thanks to our county commissioners they have run our hometown doctor off. Somebody has dropped the ball here, and we are all going to pay. That somebody is everybody that has any kind of communication sitting on their desk to use. My husband and I have Medicare A and B and the ultimate in Mutual of Omaha supplement, and nobody wants us. This is how it is in Benton County, so don't move here.